Good morgnung. Glad to know that my Idiot Brother is not the only one who was still working on his taxes at 5pm yesterday. Still working, you say? When I did all his federal for him (including the math) on Easter Sunday morning?

Why, yes. He couldn't figure out the Mass state forms, so he went with Turbo Tax anyway (making this decision yesterday), re-did everything I'd done, got a different result from the computer, and called me up in a tizzy at work at 5pm.

There are only so many times I can say, "If you live in Mass, you will fill out supplementary schedules. It is not a big deal."

Such naked instances of hand-holding requests I have not seen from my brother in, like, ever. He promised to pay me for completing all his taxes (including the state ones) next year.

Happy Birthday, NoiseDesign!

Nutty, he should just go to H&R Block. They're not that expensive. They take you last minute, and save wear and tear on the siblings.

Happy Birthday NoiseDesign

May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.

slim fast bar and coffee:

The % of sales for Turbo Tax on April 14th and 15th must be significant. I did the efile for free thing for the people that give me theirs to file. It was cool. I filed an extension for the corporate stuff because I don't have it together yet.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DESIGNER OF NOISE!!!

Yeah, I know. I was a little worried that I would have latency problems, but they must have upped their capacity, because while it was slow to log on, I had absolutely no trouble once I was in. Worked like a charm, even with me obsessively clicking back and forth through their EasyStep Navigator TM, to recheck all the work I'd done in January. It was still fine. Just like it was in January. Got to free file, although, amusingly, it cost us more to file this year than it did last, because although we paid for both federal and state last year, for two states, this year the state filing cost more than all those filings last year. Dunno why. Still, yay, free file.

Didn't mean I had to pay any less, though. Our taxes suck, because they're so abundantly clear and obvious. No kids, no house, no nothing, two incomes. Absolutely straightforward. Including the bit about paying a grand. No question whatsoever.

Ah, well. Spend it wisely, my government.

Rio, this is the reason we have a Ministry. If it's death to the stupid people, give Sean a call. Or, if it's a slight maiming, contact AmyParker. If it's a smite-ing well, I can oblige.

t smite, smite, smite

I am fascinated by how freaked-out people get about doing their taxes. I mean people who are my peers in not owning property, not having kids, not making much money. It takes me like a half hour to do my taxes, and that includes writing zeros in all the spaces that don't apply to me!

Now I have decided I cannot have fun today, as I have Too Much Work to do, but I don't wanna do work! I want to have fun!! Bah.

You write in the zeros?

I hope you get to have some fun, Jesse.

I'm off to turn my modem in and run errands and see Burrell.

Waves goodbye to the board.

The form says to!! (Um, doesn't it? I have actually only filed on paper once in the last five years or so. I used to be able to Tele-File, and this year I did it online.)